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AfterElton Briefs: A national day of protest, new "Milk" clips, and more!

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Brian Juergens


Out actor Peter Paige at a recent Power Up Premiere event in LA

Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.

  • In the wake of the Prop 8 vote, a group has named November 15th a national day of protest, and set up the Join the Impact website to coordinate demonstrations across the country. And for even more info on Prop 8 protests, check out Towleroad.com.
  • The departure of City Opera's Gerard Mortier has left the announced Brokeback Mountain opera in limbo. Here's to hoping someone steps in to fund it to completion.
  • The Huffington Post asks if the departure of Brooke Smith's nulesbian Grey's Anatomy character is more troubling than ABC would like us to believe.

  • Above, a recent 365Gay roundtable on last week's election and the implications of Prop 8.
  • Focus Features has released six new short clips from Milk. Check 'em out over here.
  • In the upcoming film The Danish Girl, Nicole Kidman will play the world's first post-op transgender, and will be married to Charlize Theron. Do you think they armwrestled over who got the role with the most prosthetics?

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    • Submitted by
    Brian Juergens
    on Mon, 2008-11-10 19:03.
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    David Ehrenstein's picture

    The clips are excellent

    Submitted by
    David Ehrenstein (7805 points) (1725 posts)
    on Mon, 2008-11-10 20:14.
    They capture Sean Penn's sweetness in the role -- which is the hallmark of the entire picture.
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    TheFabulousThomasJ's picture

    Who Had The Bright Idea. . .

    Submitted by
    TheFabulousThomasJ (850 points) (192 posts)
    on Mon, 2008-11-10 20:40.

    . . .to turn Brokeback Mountain into opera???

    Grand Ole Opry, yes; grand opera, get outta town!

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    Liz T's picture

    I am gonna try....

    Submitted by
    Liz T (8869 points) (1846 posts)
    on Mon, 2008-11-10 21:31.

    I haven't been to a protest in a long time, so i am gonna try and go to the D.C. protest. should be interesting.

    any other aftereltoners going? ;-)

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    TerrynJames's picture

    grays

    Submitted by
    TerrynJames (420 points) (84 posts)
    on Tue, 2008-11-11 09:14.

    I know that this issue is getting thrashed over on afterellen, but it is SUCH a huge dissapointment that they fired Brooke Smith from Grays and I love the interview on Ellen, cause Patrick literally looks like h's pulled the short straw of having to defend the show he works for *and does a brilliantly bad  job of it!* but that article is right, where is T.R Knight on this issue? For a show thats already had one massive brush with homophobia you would think they would know better than to try and slip this one past the audience!

    I am *SO* exicted about the Danish Girl. I adored Nicole Kidman in The Hours *which is a blood amazing film!* and it will be nice to see Charlize Theron acting in a heavy role again.

    I feel a little lost here in the UK at moment in terms of Prop 8. Is there anything that I can do here to help out? I work in a sex shop in liverpool and my boss's (who are the most gay loving people ever! My boss got me tickets to see Tina Turner with my husband!!) is disgusted by the whole thing and seeing as they have turned the store i work in (we have 11  in total) into a gay sex shop when I started, they wanted to see if there is anything we can do as a company, but I would also like to know if there is anything me n the other half can do?

     

    James

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